Ok.... so...... I weighed this morning..... and I've lost ............................. 11.2 lbs SINCE MONDAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That my friends, is 11.2 lbs in 4 DAYS . . . That makes a total of 60.2 lbs
(I had gained 3 before my last surgery)
Friday, April 17, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
GOD IS SO GOOD !!!!!
Another awesome service last night !!! Didn't get past pre-service prayer... God is definitely drawing us to a place we've never crossed before and I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHERE WE END UP !!!!!
There is a pull in me every day that I wake up to know God more and deeper than before... I love Him more than anything in this world ..........
There is a pull in me every day that I wake up to know God more and deeper than before... I love Him more than anything in this world ..........
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Catching up ...
I think the grim reaper is on his way ...
They gave me this happy juice before surgery and they said I was laughing and talking out of my head... It's great stuff...
That kinda hurt ...
Dr. Alvarez and I ... greatest Doctor ever !Haven't been on here in a while... just catching up a little bit.
My surgery went great! I had it Friday (April 10th). My Dr. is the greatest ever ... Also... Dr. Alvarez gave me a fill while I was down there, and LET ME TELL YOU ......... Did he ever fill me up ?!?!?!?!? I can eat about 3-5 bites now and that is IT !!! But, i'm excited cause that's what it's supposed to do :)
My Brother turned 28 Saturday !!! Yay for him :)
We had LOTS of visitors at church Sunday for Easter ... I had 18 kids in my Sunday School class alone! There were probably 6 or 8 adult visitors also... I am so excited about what God is doing in Ozark !!!
Tim, we missed you this weekend! Kinda got used to having you around, lol And Sunday School doesn't last NEAR as long when you are preaching..... HA I was wracking my brain for stuff to do after my lesson today cause Dad was preaching, and still preaching, and still preaching, and STILL PREACHING :)
I really have nothing else to say and i'm tired, so .... I'm done ...
I'm gonna post a few pics of my surgery :) These are actually of the first surgery because I couldn't find my camera when I went this last week, but... oh well... They kinda freak me out, in one I look like i could be on death's door ....... eck
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
This weekend ...
This weekend was great fun ! Our good friend Tim Rivers came down and we had us a hi ho time :) Friday night we went to Little Rock to "Ignite", Bro. Holme's youth meeting. Bro. Cody Marks preached and did and incredible job (has he ever not?). He talked about holding on to our faith ... not backing up ... I can't explain it, it was just really good :)
Afterward we went to the "old church" to partake of some very delicious chips and meat ... then went back over to the "big church" to have a rip roaring time at ...... "drum roll please" ..................................................................
S I N G S P E R A T I O N !!!!!!!!!! Oh, how to explain the amount of enjoyment that we experienced that night ..... I don't think that I can ... I'm not even gonna try .....
Got to see my cousin Wade ... I love Wade Townley, he is my hero ... other than God... and my Mom and Dad :) GOD IS SO GOOD !!!!!!!
Tim beat the socks off of me and Cory in Scattergories. The answers got REEEAAALLLYYY imaginative (great word) before the night was over tho ....
Kinds of candy with an "A" ... APPLE ... wwwhhhaattttttt
Things found in the Desert with a "K" ... KNOWLEDGE ... wwwhhhaaatttt
States starting with a "M" ... "There are no states that start with an M" ... wwhhhaaatttttt
It was great, lol
Tim preached both Sunday morning and Sunday night and we had 2 get the Holy Ghost and 1 pray back through !!!!! I am not just saying this cause it sounds good but... we had InCrEdIbLe Church.
We were having such awesome church that Dad asked Tim to stay over for Monday night (why stop a good thing ?). Monday night was one of the best services I have been in in a long time. God moved in such a powerful way, it felt like you could literally just reach out and touch Him. I think I could have stayed at church all night ...
There has been such a spirit of expectancy and excitement in prayer lately... I believe with all of my heart that we are within touching distance to the greatest Revial we have ever had or can even imagine.
WATCH OUT OZARK, TRUTH TABERNACLE IS ON A WAR PATH !!!!!!!
I can't wait to see what God does this weekend !!!!
I'll post some pics later...
Afterward we went to the "old church" to partake of some very delicious chips and meat ... then went back over to the "big church" to have a rip roaring time at ...... "drum roll please" ..................................................................
S I N G S P E R A T I O N !!!!!!!!!! Oh, how to explain the amount of enjoyment that we experienced that night ..... I don't think that I can ... I'm not even gonna try .....
Got to see my cousin Wade ... I love Wade Townley, he is my hero ... other than God... and my Mom and Dad :) GOD IS SO GOOD !!!!!!!
Tim beat the socks off of me and Cory in Scattergories. The answers got REEEAAALLLYYY imaginative (great word) before the night was over tho ....
Kinds of candy with an "A" ... APPLE ... wwwhhhaattttttt
Things found in the Desert with a "K" ... KNOWLEDGE ... wwwhhhaaatttt
States starting with a "M" ... "There are no states that start with an M" ... wwhhhaaatttttt
It was great, lol
Tim preached both Sunday morning and Sunday night and we had 2 get the Holy Ghost and 1 pray back through !!!!! I am not just saying this cause it sounds good but... we had InCrEdIbLe Church.
We were having such awesome church that Dad asked Tim to stay over for Monday night (why stop a good thing ?). Monday night was one of the best services I have been in in a long time. God moved in such a powerful way, it felt like you could literally just reach out and touch Him. I think I could have stayed at church all night ...
There has been such a spirit of expectancy and excitement in prayer lately... I believe with all of my heart that we are within touching distance to the greatest Revial we have ever had or can even imagine.
WATCH OUT OZARK, TRUTH TABERNACLE IS ON A WAR PATH !!!!!!!
I can't wait to see what God does this weekend !!!!
I'll post some pics later...
Friday, March 20, 2009
Geo Caching !!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, this is my new favorite thing in the world... Cory and I were introduced to the great world of Geo Caching (sounds like cash) this week by Bro. Nathan McDonald from Oklahoma City and his youth group (THANK YOU !!!).
We have church on Monday nights and about half way through song service about 15 or 16 of the Mac's youth group walk in out of no where! It was a great surprise and we had slammin church! One guy was shouting and hit his head on the edge of the platform and couldn't see straight and was throwing up and stuff... I felt so sorry for him, lol Seriously ...
Well, Bro. Mac informed us that they had brought sleeping bags and air mattresses and were going to stay in the church, lol Needless to say...... very few sleeping bags were put to use.
After church we went to Pizza Hut and about 11:30pm Bro. Mac said that he had printed out some Geo Caches and told me and Cory that we would love it... we really had no idea what we were in store for...
The way he explained it was kind of like a scavenger hunt... he had a GPS (not a car one, like a ...... hunting one or something) and there is this website (i just signed up) you go to, www.geocache.com and you put in your zip code and whatever mile radius that you want and it will give you the code to enter into your GPS and it will lead you within feet of these caches.
I know, you are thinking... WHAT THE WORLD IS A CACHE ... They are different things, some of them were altoid boxes, some were 35mm film canisters, some were ammo cans ... different things. They are all covered in something to camoflauge them (camo duct tape on most of them).
The fun part is finding them... cause you really don't get anything when you DO find it, lol But in every one of them, ther is a paper that you sign and date when you found it and you put it back exactly as you found it. YOU WON'T BELIEVE HOW MANY NAMES ARE ON THERE !!!!!!!
I have never heard of this in my life and have TOTALLY been missing out ! We cached from 11:30 that night after church until 7:30 THE NEXT MORNING !!!! It was such a blast... and no... i did not go to work that day, lol
On one of the chaches, we had to drive on this little road in the middle of nowhere, park, climb through a barbed wire fence, walk .67 of a mile, climb through ANOTHER fence, go down the side of a mountain (not really, but it felt like it, lol) then walk on a gas line road until we came to the spot and we almost didn't find it... it was SUPER camo'd ... finally someone found it... under a stick, lol
One of them was in a grave yard... pitch black outside, 2:30am ... it was great :)
One was behind a rock in a little brook in the mountains, one was RIGHT BESIDE OUR CHURCH, one was in a fence post... i mean, these things are EVERYWHERE !!!! Even in Ozark, lol I had no clue, I mean... some of these places i have driven by and walked by 100's of times...
I know some of you are thinking... wow, that sounds like NOT alot of fun, lol But trust me, it is great! It's really great when it is 4:00 am and there are 15 people crawling around on their hands and knees in the woods with flash lights and cars are passing on the road and slowing down like ... whaaaaaaat is going on, lol Great fun !!!!!'
You are supposed to be sneaky about it but... how can 15 people be sneaky???
We have church on Monday nights and about half way through song service about 15 or 16 of the Mac's youth group walk in out of no where! It was a great surprise and we had slammin church! One guy was shouting and hit his head on the edge of the platform and couldn't see straight and was throwing up and stuff... I felt so sorry for him, lol Seriously ...
Well, Bro. Mac informed us that they had brought sleeping bags and air mattresses and were going to stay in the church, lol Needless to say...... very few sleeping bags were put to use.
After church we went to Pizza Hut and about 11:30pm Bro. Mac said that he had printed out some Geo Caches and told me and Cory that we would love it... we really had no idea what we were in store for...
The way he explained it was kind of like a scavenger hunt... he had a GPS (not a car one, like a ...... hunting one or something) and there is this website (i just signed up) you go to, www.geocache.com and you put in your zip code and whatever mile radius that you want and it will give you the code to enter into your GPS and it will lead you within feet of these caches.
I know, you are thinking... WHAT THE WORLD IS A CACHE ... They are different things, some of them were altoid boxes, some were 35mm film canisters, some were ammo cans ... different things. They are all covered in something to camoflauge them (camo duct tape on most of them).
The fun part is finding them... cause you really don't get anything when you DO find it, lol But in every one of them, ther is a paper that you sign and date when you found it and you put it back exactly as you found it. YOU WON'T BELIEVE HOW MANY NAMES ARE ON THERE !!!!!!!
I have never heard of this in my life and have TOTALLY been missing out ! We cached from 11:30 that night after church until 7:30 THE NEXT MORNING !!!! It was such a blast... and no... i did not go to work that day, lol
On one of the chaches, we had to drive on this little road in the middle of nowhere, park, climb through a barbed wire fence, walk .67 of a mile, climb through ANOTHER fence, go down the side of a mountain (not really, but it felt like it, lol) then walk on a gas line road until we came to the spot and we almost didn't find it... it was SUPER camo'd ... finally someone found it... under a stick, lol
One of them was in a grave yard... pitch black outside, 2:30am ... it was great :)
One was behind a rock in a little brook in the mountains, one was RIGHT BESIDE OUR CHURCH, one was in a fence post... i mean, these things are EVERYWHERE !!!! Even in Ozark, lol I had no clue, I mean... some of these places i have driven by and walked by 100's of times...
I know some of you are thinking... wow, that sounds like NOT alot of fun, lol But trust me, it is great! It's really great when it is 4:00 am and there are 15 people crawling around on their hands and knees in the woods with flash lights and cars are passing on the road and slowing down like ... whaaaaaaat is going on, lol Great fun !!!!!'
You are supposed to be sneaky about it but... how can 15 people be sneaky???
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Surgery Date #2 ...
Going back to Mexico April, 10th ... I cannot believe I seriously have to have ANOTHER surgery ..........................
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Lap Band ...
Those of you who know me know I just had the Lap Band (weight loss) surgery in Nov. of last year (approx 4 months ago). I've lost about 52 lbs... (whoo hoo for me) but have had a REALLY hard time recently losing weight... i've had 2 fills and neither one worked.. felt nothing at all. Very dissapointing. I've pretty much been not eating to lose weight (not healthy OR fun) lol
Well today I found out WHY i don't feel any different after a fill. See, I have a port in the middle of my stomach that is connected by a small tube to the band that is around my stomach that constricts my eating. WELL, lo and behold... THE TUBE IS NOT EVEN CONNECTED TO THE BAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is just dangling there, not connected to anything... so everytime i've got a fill, the juice has just went through the tube and into my stomach. NOT what I wanted to hear.
SOOOOO... I have to go back to Mexico and have surgery... AGAIN ...
Well today I found out WHY i don't feel any different after a fill. See, I have a port in the middle of my stomach that is connected by a small tube to the band that is around my stomach that constricts my eating. WELL, lo and behold... THE TUBE IS NOT EVEN CONNECTED TO THE BAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is just dangling there, not connected to anything... so everytime i've got a fill, the juice has just went through the tube and into my stomach. NOT what I wanted to hear.
SOOOOO... I have to go back to Mexico and have surgery... AGAIN ...
Thursday, March 12, 2009
No Limits
Tim & Kim in San Fran
WHITNEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love this girl !!!!!
Top Votow, One Of Mo Fovorote Fronds ... :)
How many dudes does it take to change a tire??? Oh, and they MUST get their rest first ...
Kelly and I after Church Sunday... I look like i have Mickey Mouse ears ...
Me and Bekki waiting on the Trolly Car
My friend whom I have not seen in 83 years
Ben and his very manly scarf... we WERE in San Fran .....
Nicole and I about to get on the BART, whoo hoo !!
Me and Cory at the BART Station
Love this girl ! Me and Kim
One of my favorite ppl ... Mr. Tim Rivers :)
Love, Love, Love Drew and Gentry !!!
I am drooling on my keyboard...
Summer and I on the plane going to Sac...
Kelly and I after Church Sunday... I look like i have Mickey Mouse ears ...
Me and Bekki waiting on the Trolly Car
My friend whom I have not seen in 83 years
Ben and his very manly scarf... we WERE in San Fran .....
Nicole and I about to get on the BART, whoo hoo !!
Me and Cory at the BART Station
Love this girl ! Me and Kim
One of my favorite ppl ... Mr. Tim Rivers :)
Love, Love, Love Drew and Gentry !!!
I am drooling on my keyboard... 
Summer and I on the plane going to Sac...Ok, so my first blog has to be about No Limits... Even though I only made the last night, it was INCREDIBLE! We had so much fun :) I got to see some of my favorite people in the world that I never get to see cause they live on the other side of the planet AND I got to meet some supercrazycool new people :)
Saturday in San Fran was great... i mean... what ISN'T great about San Fran ?!?!? Lots of friends, the BART, the Trolly, Sushi, Bubba Gumps :)... Sunday, church was awesome... Food was INCREDIBLE, and the 42 flat tires were HiLaRiOuS (I love you Kim... It WAS funny but I really felt sorry for you! Hope you are enjoying your PB&J's for the next month, ha) Then Sunday night at the house was a blast... lotsa people, mad gab... Cory and Tim picking on Ben (he's a good sport) and then everybody in the car laughing at............ we have no clue what, lol
Monday... we had about a 6 hour plane ride home but i slept about 90% of the way so it was great, lol Monday night after our day long plane ride we met some friends at Wing Stop and had great fun, THEN we drove 2 1/2 hours home from Tulsa... and no... I did not work the next day, lol My boss is great :)
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